I am Californian and at least with my own friends, family and neighbors there has been an increase in interest in the idea of separation from the US. We are kinda getting tired of the rest of the country going against our principals and interests while still benefiting from our resources. We have a larger population then Canada yet we only get 2 votes in the national legislature. Why should we continue participating in the insane politics of a dying empire?

I would say its a yes and. Yes it costs a lot of money and it’s not as efficient as trees long term. But Trees + these machines + no longer burning and releasing CO2 at the current rate + land rewilding = a chance at survival.

China is not stupid, they have no issue with crashing the global economy by separating itself from fossil fuel consumption. They want to be the technology powerhouse of the world in the 21’st century, where/if fossil fuels play a role in that who knows.

It never works out.

They think they will “win” because they assume its all a zero-sum game. They will lose IMO because the rest of us don’t think life is zero-sum, corpo or not still gotta put a roof over my head and still got to put food on the table.

There is no green in growth…period.

Cool, but the insurance companies are not. Lets see who wins this game.

Finally some quality entertainment.

Dealership owners are already the worst kinds of scum. Dealership owners next to military bases are an extra level of lowlife.

Dodge Charger. Number one car for people either A) Too young to know better or B) Wanting to make the worst decisions in life.

Then what is necessary violence? When does the rhetoric of an candidate of a major party come to the point when you can call it fascist?

Calling a politician who

• Fetishes an imagined great past.
• Claims immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”
• Get policy advice from individuals who call themselves christian nationalists and Neo-reactionaires.
• And has admitted to becoming a dictator on day 1 of his presidency.

a fucking fascist isn’t being too extreme. Its calling a spade a spade and a duck a duck.

Why not? A Fascist getting elected president of the most powerful military force on the planet seems like a reasonable time to start rioting.

Good, now get me off this planet.

Not how economics work.

Agreed geoengineering is bad science/engineering IMO. You can’t know what the long term effects would be until after its been deployed. The safest bet would be to just ditch fossil fuels but that’s not as sexy.

The land barons of CA are no joke. They are a problem that we are going to have to deal with one way or another.

As a born/raised/living Californian I can attest to the fact that its not California that is the problem. But as my ancestors would say it’s “El Pinche Gringo’s” that tend to be the problem.

IMO its a “meh”. Oil production is currently at an energy neutral state(amount of energy needed to extract is equal to the energy provided), in a decade or so its going to hit energy negative(energy needed to extract is more then energy provided). What should be happening is slow/begin halting extraction and storing all of that oil in the ground just in case we might need that energy surplus at some point in the future but that hurts quarterly profit returns so the oil executive solution to it is “suck it dry, not my problem”.

Because he is not an actual progressive. Hes just a spoiled rich kid who like to pretend to be a progressive.

So the barbiturate addict who is partially brain damaged doesn’t understand something that requires him to be open to changing his habits? Shocking! 😐